创业初期，我们每天工作16个小时，一周工作7天。

The behavior of the whole cannot be predicted from the behavior of its parts taken separately.

森林的真正价值不能仅用板英尺来衡量。

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

为了惩罚我对权威的蔑视，命运使我自己也成为权威。

Architecture is not about solving problems, but about creating questions.

Space becomes place when it's inhabited with life.

Innovation is not the goal; solving problems is.